Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Text contains many diacritical marks, some of which were hard to read. It is likely that some transcription errors remain in this ebook text.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
Sidenotes originally were the running titles at the tops of odd-numbered pages. Here, they have been positioned between or next to paragraphs, close to the pages on which they originally appeared.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been sequentially renumbered and placed at the ends of the chapters that reference them.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Text uses both “Siloah” and “Siloam”.
Footnote 417, originally footnote 1 on page 214: text is missing the volume number.
Page 296: “500 feet side” was printed that way.